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17.07.2026

Former OVD-Info director Aleksandr Polivanov has been declared a ‘foreign agent’

17.07.2026

Alexei and Masha Moskalev have been granted political asylum in France.

07.05.2026

Another participant in “The Scarlet Swan” has left Russia

19.02.2026

Kyrgyzstan has denied political asylum to a left-wing activist from Russia

11.02.2026

The playwright left Russia following 'carousel arrests' and the threat of a treason case.

11.02.2026

Kazakhstan has granted a request to extradite a former staff member of Navalny’s headquarters to Russia.

04.02.2026

ASTRA reported that a human rights activist from Donetsk was beaten in a police station.

02.02.2026

“First Department”: Developer arrested on charges of high treason after being deported from Kazakhstan to Russia

30.01.2026

Kazakhstan has approved the extradition to Russia of a Chechen activist who reported torture.

27.01.2026

Demographer fined for interview with Meduza and for the outlet republishing his article

16.01.2026

A 19-year-old resident of an occupied village has been convicted over comments about the war, “Putyu” and “rusnya”

12.01.2026

Mari El Republic,

Saint Petersburg

What happened in the first days of 2026: key news on political pressure

30.12.2025

Activist Pavel Krisevich has left Russia after “carousel arrests” and threats from law enforcement.

19.12.2025

A criminal case has been opened against an emigrated poet and activist from Barnaul, a major city in Siberia, under two articles.

18.12.2025

The State Duma has passed a draft law in its first reading to restrict the rights of people facing political persecution who have left Russia.

15.12.2025

Pussy Riot has been designated as an “extremist organisation”

11.12.2025

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

A publicist and sociologist from Nizhny Novgorod, a large city on the Volga River, has been charged under three criminal articles.

08.12.2025

The Supreme Court has declared the “Congress of People’s Deputies” a “terrorist organisation.”

27.11.2025

The American legal entity FBK has been recognised as a “terrorist organisation.”

24.11.2025

The musicians of “Stoptime” have left Russia